Great warrior King : Bundelkhand Kesri Maharaja Chhatrasal

BundelkhandKesri Mahārāj Chhatrasal (4 May 1649 – 20 December 1731), was a Bundeli warrior who chose to turn against the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb and seek to establish his own kingdom in Bundelkhand. His father had raised the banner for freedom a generation earlier but was killed in battle with the Mughals after himself killing the favourite of the emperor, Abu Fazl.
He was born in KacharKachnai on the 4th of May in 1649, to ChampatRai and LalKunwar. Chhatrasal raised the banner of revolt against the Mughals in Bundelkhand at the age of 22, with an army of 5 horsemen and 25 swordsmen, in 1671. During the first ten years of his revolt he conquered a large tract of land between Chitrakoot and Panna on the east and Gwalior on the west. His domains streched from Kalpi in the north to Sagar, GarahKota and Damoh in the south. Some of the Mughal generals who were defeated by him were Rohilla Khan, Kaliq, Munawwar Khan, Sadruddin, Sheikh Anwar, SayyidLatif, Bahlol Khan and Abdus Ahmed.

Chhatrasal was a disciple of PranNathji and accepted him as his Guru and accepted PranamiDharma. That was Swami PranNathji who told Raja ChhatrasalBundela, a great medieval warrior regarding Diamond mines of Panna and thus strengthened his financial position. He also persuaded Chhatrasal to make Panna his capital and arranged his coronation there.